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Villaraigosa calls for immediate end to 'Gold Card' parking ticket system
L.A. NOWLos Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Friday called for an end to the little-known "Gold Card Desk" that City Controller Wendy Greuel criticized the day before as allowing elected officials to fast-track parking citation reviews. About 1,000 citations... -
Theater review: 'Robin and the 7 Hoods' at the Old Globe
Culture MonsterSan Diego -- Something slightly felonious is happening with the goldmine of tunes by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, the songwriting team that helped revitalize Frank Sinatraâs hip factor in the 1960s. The new musical âRobin and the 7...... -
Building on the Westside: Q & A with L.A. 5th District City Council candidates
Growth and development issues on Los Angeles' crowded Westside often leave residents roiling over how best to keep it vibrant without eroding neighborhood life. In recent days, Times editors posed various questions to the candidates seeking the region'...Tags: Road Transportation, Economy, Business and Finance, Elections, Energy Saving, Business
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Paul Lauterbur, 77; 'the father of MRI'
Times Staff WriterPhysicist Paul C. Lauterbur, who received a 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for giving physicians the ability to look inside the human body without using harmful radiation, died Tuesday at his home in Urbana, Ill. He was 77 and had been...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Diseases and Illnesses, Defense, Obituaries, Nobel Prize Awards
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Los Angeles mayoral candidates weigh in on the proposed Subway to the Sea
When Los Angeles County voters passed a half-cent sales tax to raise $40 billion for transportation last fall, about $4.1 billion was set aside for the first phase of a subway extension west from downtown Los Angeles. Times editors have been posing...Tags: Regional Authority, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Real Estate Sales, Transportation, Subway Transportation
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Solar energy: Q & A with L.A. mayoral candidates
Should the City of Los Angeles become a national leader in the generation of renewable solar energy, as a March 3 ballot measure proposes? Or would it be too costly to put 400 megawatts' worth of photovoltaic cells on roofs and parking lots across town?...Tags: Renewable Energy, Elections, Nuclear Power, Voting, Career and Workplace
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The Paul Wolfowitz of the '60s
It was apt of President Bush to invoke the specter of the Vietnam War in his recent comments on Iraq, because his ill-fated activism in the Middle East is so clearly reminiscent of U.S. policy in the 1960s, when taking the good fight to America's "Third...Tags: International Military Interventions, Defense, Television, Henry Kissinger, Foreign Aid
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New in paperback: The pioneers of the police procedural, Iraq by way of Homer and the Crusades through Muslim eyes
"Immoveable Feast" by John Baxter (Harper Perennial) Baxter, the film critic and biographer of Spielberg, Buñuel and others, fell in love and moved from Los Angeles to Paris some years back, from whence he has dispatched a series of fluent, witty and...Tags: Crime (genre), West Point, Stranger Than Fiction, William Faulkner, Murder
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From the archives: Family relies on Muslim values even as traditions fade
Times Staff WriterMohsin Zulfiqar has a shock of white hair, a white bushy mustache and an intellectual air that bring to mind an Indian Einstein — though not as absent-minded, he jokes. His wife, Khawar, small and aristocratic in her bearing, is the image of her...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Family, Colleges and Universities, Religious Conflicts, Disasters and Accidents
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Man tried to hire prostitute for his son, 14
A man who tried to hire a prostitute to take his 14-year-old son's virginity as a present was spared jail by a court on today. The Polish national took the boy out in his car and allowed him to pick out the prostitute, who was standing at the side of the...Tags: Prisons, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, Punishment, Employers
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Is Maryland headed for a wave of bank mergers?
In less than a week, three bank acquisitions, one involving the parent of Baltimore County Savings Bank, have been announced in the Mid-Atlantic region. The burst of activity suggests the start of a long-anticipated wave of mergers. "The industry...
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Police briefs - June 13
The following incidents were reported by the Hagerstown Police Department: Tuesday - At 2:45 p.m., summons served in the first block of West Antietam Street. - At 3:24 p.m., suspicious person/subject stopped in the first block of North Potomac...Tags: Salem (Salem, Virginia), Edgewood, Theft
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